asterisk users - Jul 2006 - Bad luck installing bristuff on multiple Linux'es. Any one got a good-luck story I can repeat?

I've been trying to install bristuff on my system for a really long time.
This is what I've done so far:

I started with a Asterisk@Home installation. I tried downloading and 
compiling bristuff release - it didn't work. It was a long time ago, I 
don't remamber what the problem was.
I tried compiling the latest bristuff (whatever "latest" was about 1-2
months ago). It failed to compile.

I download the full CentOS 4.3 and tried compiling both bristuff release 
(0.2.0-RC8) and bristuff "latest". Again, whatever latest was about 2 
weeks ago.

Next I found something about bristuff being known to work on kernel 2.4; 
Since CentOS 4.3 has kernel 2.6 I downloaded CentOS 3 and tried 
compiling both bristuff release (0.2.0-RC8) and the current release of 
today (19 july 2006). I wasn't able to compile ither one of them.

Now, after downloading 2 DVD Linux images (CentOS 4.3 and CentOS 3) and 
two CD Images (Asterisk@Home and Trixbox) and reinstalling everything a 
few times, I think it's time to ask for help:

Would someone be so kind and tell my how they installed Bristuff from A 
to Z? (that is, what version of Linux so I can download the same 
version, what updates, what version of bristuff). I'm hoping for a quick 
answer like: "Install LinuxVariant 10.20, install all updates using 
LinuxVariantUpdateProgram, download bristuff version X.Y.Z, call 
install.sh and be done with it".

Thanks,
Cosmin Prund

Bristuff 0.2.0-RC8 if for Asterisk 1.0.10
Bristuff 0.3.0-PRE-1r if for Asterisk 1.2.9.1, libpri 1.2.3 and zaptel 1.2.6
download proper versions
(for Asterisk 1.2.9.1)
look at install.sh in bristuff directory
do as it's written there:
cd zaptel
patch -p1 < ../patches/zaptel.patch
cd ..

cd libpri-1.2.3
patch -p1 < ../patches/libpri.patch
cd ..

cd asterisk-1.2.9.1
patch -p1 < ../patches/asterisk.patch
cd ..

then try to install Trixbox.

Asterisk@Home as i kno comes with whole OS and asterisk installation is 
automated and ther is no time for applying bristuff patches.
It looks that You have to manually install OS and asterisk then trixbox

-Hope that help You a little.
> I've been trying to install bristuff on my system for a really long
time.
> This is what I've done so far:
>
> I started with a Asterisk@Home installation. I tried downloading and 
> compiling bristuff release - it didn't work. It was a long time ago, I 
> don't remamber what the problem was.
> I tried compiling the latest bristuff (whatever "latest" was
about 1-2
> months ago). It failed to compile.
>
> I download the full CentOS 4.3 and tried compiling both bristuff 
> release (0.2.0-RC8) and bristuff "latest". Again, whatever latest
was
> about 2 weeks ago.
>
> Next I found something about bristuff being known to work on kernel 
> 2.4; Since CentOS 4.3 has kernel 2.6 I downloaded CentOS 3 and tried 
> compiling both bristuff release (0.2.0-RC8) and the current release of 
> today (19 july 2006). I wasn't able to compile ither one of them.
>
> Now, after downloading 2 DVD Linux images (CentOS 4.3 and CentOS 3) 
> and two CD Images (Asterisk@Home and Trixbox) and reinstalling 
> everything a few times, I think it's time to ask for help:
>
> Would someone be so kind and tell my how they installed Bristuff from 
> A to Z? (that is, what version of Linux so I can download the same 
> version, what updates, what version of bristuff). I'm hoping for a 
> quick answer like: "Install LinuxVariant 10.20, install all updates 
> using LinuxVariantUpdateProgram, download bristuff version X.Y.Z, call 
> install.sh and be done with it".
>
> Thanks,
> Cosmin Prund